Under the guidance of Professor Veatch, Aristotle stands forth again as the philosopher who, above all, speaks simply and directly to the common sense of all mankind. Today, Professor Veatch believes, the time may be ripe for a belated recognition that Aristotle is "a truly live option in philosophy."
The discussion begins with the Physics―for Aristotle, the discipline embracing all aspects of the natural world―and examines Aristotle's doctrine of categories and his celebrated "four causes." Turning to the De Anima, Professor Veatch casts aside many errors of interpretation which have come about because of mistaken readings of the term soul and gives an intelligible account of Aristotle's psychology, seen within the context of his system as a whole. Next, the varieties of human achievement are surveyed in Aristotelian terms, with introductory discussions of the Ethics, Politics, and the Poetics. Turning to the Metaphysics, the author demonstrates that the question of the unity of subject matter in Aristotle's metaphysics does not warrant the great difficulty that has been made of it. Finally―reversing to good effect the traditional order―Aristotelian logic is presented with superb clarity and ease.

Aristotle: A Contemporary Appreciation (Midland Book)

Biographies & Memoirs

Veatch, Henry B.

Professionals & Academics

Indiana University Press

In his provocative and highly readable study, Human Rights: Fact or Fancy?, Henry B. Veatch finds the basis for human rights in natural law. He builds his argument step by step, carefully laying the foundation for his central assertion that our basic rights are discoverable directly in the facts of nature. Although the bulk of contemporary concern is with the law only and not with ethics, Veatch insists that this approach is mistaken because it leaves no place for what Aristotle called "a natural justice." Law must be based on ethics, he maintains, and ethics in turn must be grounded in fact and therefore must have a basis in nature.

Human Rights: Fact Or Fancy?

Legal Theory & Systems

LSU Press

For an Ontology of Morals: A Critique of Contemporary Ethical Theory

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Northwestern University Press

Looks at being a follower of Aristotle or St. Thomas Aquinas in a modern philosophical world.

Swimming Against the Current in Contemporary Philosophy: Occasional Essays and Papers (Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy)

Veatch, Harry B.

The Catholic University of America Press

This book is a consideration of the differences between Aristotelian and symbolic logic (and the metaphysical assumptions they come packaged with) and the consequences these have for how we view the world. What Veatch propose is to try to exhibit with respect to several of the key logical tools and devices propositions, inductive and deductive arguments, scientific and historical explanations, definitions, etc. how these several instruments are differently conceived, both as to their natures and their functions, in each of these respective logics.

Two Logics: The Conflict Between Classical and Neo-Analytic Philosophy

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